The team and residents (fondly known as family members) at Gibraltar Nursing Home have been busy crafting and hanging Christmas decorations across their households, ready for a competition of Best-Decorated house.
The team and family members have been busy crafting and hanging Christmas decorations across their households.
Each of Gibraltar’s households, Beech, Fernlea, Meadow, Riverleigh, Oakleigh and Poplar, have been taking part in paper-chain making, Christmas card designing and more, bringing each home to life with festive spirit. Decorating at this time of year can be an important tradition for family members who celebrate Christmas, offering moments of familiarity and joy.
Elsie, 87 years young, whilst dressing her Christmas tree, shared her own tips with the team on how to place the decorations so the tree looked its best!
Elsie shared tips with the team on how to place decorations so the tree looked its best!
The care home invited Vivien Coughlin, a visitor and close friend of the home for many years, to judge the competition, and Vivien very kindly accepted. Vivien spent two hours being shown around each house by team members, before selecting Oakleigh as this year’s winner! Oakleigh received £50 towards their household along with chocolates, while Vivien and Verity, Home Manager, also donated chocolates and biscuits to all others for taking part.
Gibraltar’s wonderful team members pulled out all the stops to help make every household festive.
Verity shared: ‘It was lovely to see how much pride each household took in decorating their home in a way that felt personal to them and the people who live here.’